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OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 1, 2019—ReactWell, LLC, has licensed a novel waste-to-fuel technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to improve energy conversion methods for cleaner, more efficient oil and gas, chemical and
![Sean Hearne has been named director of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Sean Hearne has been named director of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2019-P00370.jpg?itok=6sC8Bnj7)
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 8, 2019—The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named Sean Hearne director of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. The center is a DOE Office of Science User Facility that brings world-leading resources and capabilities to the nanoscience resear...
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For more than 50 years, scientists have debated what turns particular oxide insulators, in which electrons barely move, into metals, in which electrons flow freely.